1. We went out to sea on the ebb tide. Sentencedict.com

2. 14 They left the harbour on the ebb tide.

3. Slip it into the ebb tide and let the river take it.

4. The ebb - tide , which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation, and delaying our assailants.

5. (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her Astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"